Starting on Wednesday, Parisians can only exercise outdoors when "street crowd is at its lowest".

Parisians were previously allowed to exercise outdoors for an hour while carrying a form explaining the reason why they were going out.

Spain had 742 deaths in the last 24 hours.
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In the same day, neighbouring Spain recorded a rise of daily coronavirus infections and deaths for the first time in five days, a result consistent with previous Tuesdays when a weekend backlog of tests and fatalities are reported.

With 743 new deaths in the last 24 hours, some 100 more than the fatalities seen from Sunday to Monday, Spain's death toll neared 13,800 since the beginning of the pandemic, Health Ministry data showed. The total of confirmed infections rose over 140,000, with 5,478 new ones on Tuesday, 1,000 more than on Monday. Both figures had been declining since April 2.

Authorities have said that cementing the flattening of the contagion arc will be a long process but they have pinned hopes on how pressure is easing in hospitals, mostly in emergency wards.

As part of de-escalating measures being debated for coming weeks, Spain's left-wing government wants to test 30,000 households to draw the national map of the outbreak. The goal is to measure how much the virus has spread beyond hospitals and nursing homes, which had become big contagion clusters.

So far, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 1.3 million people worldwide and over 74,000 deaths have been recorded.